Church Of All Saints

SE 21 SE CHURCH LANE Clayton West 2/16 Church of All Saints

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Church. 1875. Pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roof with lower chancel roof. 3-bay nave with lean-to south aisle and gabled south porch. 2-bay chancel. 4 simple lancets to aisle. Six 6-foiled clerestorey windows in circles. 2-light nave windows with 6-foil in heads. 3-light east window with 6-foil in head. West window of 2-lights with trefoil in head and large wheel window in gable apex. Nave surmounted by tall octagonal slender wooden bell-cote with slated base and traceried open sides. Slender, sprocketed fleche. Vestry wing on north side.

Interior: 3-bay arcade to south on short octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Large chancel arch on rectangular responds. Scissor braced roof to nave and chancel with wind bracing. Well carved stone pulpit with relief figures of Christ and two Saints, dated 1899 in memory of Fitzgerald Thomas Wintour who was Rector of High Hoyland for 31 years. West window also to the above, 1898. Other late C19 glass to Wintour and Waites families. At the west end of the nave is a carved oak memorial to Charles John Wintour R.N. who commanded the 4th destroyer flotilla at the battle of Jutland Bank, 1916, killed in action. A large rectangular base surmounted by a low-relief carving of a destroyer. Cartouche over with helme and crest. To the sides a trophy in C18 style.

A. R. Bielby, Churches & Chapels of Kirklees, 1978.

Listing NGR: SE2586610960